The App Store Premium is a new additional revisited App Store.
In the App Store Premium, you will have only the best games or apps available to the app store. In two word, there will be the traditional "app store" and the new "app store premium" icons available.

How it will work for the developers?

It's simple, a quality rules is required for this new category. Every developers can ask to be part of the app store premium but if the application is not responding to the quality chart, the app will not be validate. If the dev want to be in the Premium, they must improve the app.

The goal of the App Store Premium is to force the developers to make good app and games.

That's all beneficial for the customers, for the "true" developers and can generate more moneys for both camps, because the price can be a little more higher.

The App Store Premium will also featured a "random of the day" category where 20 games is randomly picked ( except of those who are allready in the top 25) the change will be made every day to give a chance to the good developers to be know. (that's the moral point !)

Benefical for the customers means: no more crap, no one screen app stuff, no more compilated sdk example with one modification to personalize the app and make illegal Mario soundboard stuff in one day, etc... Just good stuff.

The premium charts can be : good interface, good design, good sounds, nice design, clear mainscreen, many levels, etc. A quality control just like the Sony PSP or others...
All rejected app will be followed by a explication in order to give the chance to the dev team to improved the issue.
Other will, they must submit the application in the traditional App Store.

In my own opinion is to force developers to migrate to the premium and to have a perfect clean App Store, for once and for all.

That's all we want, right?

If that was what I wanted I obviously wouldn't have made Farting Boobs!

I still don't see how this would pan out. Eventually Apple would have to maintain a separate store no-one cares about, and they can't really rename the Premium Store to just the AppStore later on without confusing the public.

I believe part of the problem today is Apple's emphasise on sales-figures. Yes, it's the traditional way of compiling these kind of lists but it's also a guaranteed way of getting sensationalist crap up there. If Apple could device some kind of well thought out rating/sales-figures formula and put a list based on these criterias front and centre I believe it would solve most of the problems I as a consumer have with the AppStore.

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